Fiction

Guilty of only looking like the enemy, the Japanese American community was sucked into uniformly undeserved treatment at the hands of their government after December 7, 1941. Eiji Takara was an American-born person of Okinawan/Japanese descent who had been sent back to Japan in the 1930s to be educated and became what was known as Kibei. Despite the intense suspicions about his loyalty to America, he was recruited by the Military Intelligence Service to help translate and analyze intercepted Japanese military communications. He more than proved his loyalty and worth by assisting in the successful interception and killing of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto and the famous “Marianas Turkey style="m...

Kelly Patrick Ryan finds that he has a knack for being able to read people and situations to his advantage. He also enjoys seeking vengeance for his friends and those who are willing to pay him. Read this crime novel to learn how fixing engulfs his in all formats (paperback, hardcover, Audible, Kindle, Kobo, Note that Audible Narrator Bill Yarbrough is impressive in bringing this book to life! 

Michigan Fixer is written as a pre/sequel to Undone, but can be read or listened to independently.  

Undone is a murder mystery based in Detroit and involving the death of a rookie shortstop with the uniquely written novel is enjoyed by sports fans and non-sports enthusiasts as well. It consists of four parts, three of which are narrated by different characters in the story. Part Four brings it all together in this riveting crime in all formats (Paperback, Hardcover, Audible, Kindle, Kobo,

WAR - It changes everyone and everything it touches. But especially the men who live in the trenches. Who fight the style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">Lt. Colonel Jackson Joseph MacKenzie is one of those men. He grew up in the shadow of a legendary Marine. Part of a family tradition to serve, he joined the United States Army. His first war - Korea - taught him death the hard way, both personal and style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">His second - Vietnam - never-ending pain. And betrayal by those above him. Those he trusted. His superiors. Given a top-secret mission to help end the war, he carried out his o...

WAR – What happens to the soldiers who fight them? Do they just go home and ride off into the sunset? Do they return to their families and a normal life? Or do they have an internal war? Trying to come to terms with what happened to them and their buddies in a war that no one style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">Scars made not only outside but inside. Called baby killer, murderer, and so many other vile names. Ignored and sometimes abused by the very system they gave their oath and sometimes their lives to style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(15,17,17);font-size:14px;">Lt. Colonel Jackson MacKenzie is one of those men. He gave all on...

It's perilous penning this blurb. It's fine when man is modest about his  work. It even affords him the aura of an invisible crown!But what about his work?Were it an art or craft, it is there for all to see. What of a literary work of an unheralded author?Well, lauding the same might raise one's  eyebrows. Failing to praise wouldn't make a 'jewel-less crown' either!Why not see, if this is the great Indian novel.  This is the story of the rise and fall of an ambitious man, the decline, and the decay of his conniving wife, the trials, and tribulations of their wayward son as well as the grit and gall of a spirited woman, who enters into his life. This depiction of their life and...

Even as Detective Dhruva was enamored of Kavya, whom he rescues from her kidnapper, Radha, an alleged murderess on the run, gatecrashes into his life. But when Kavya too joins him after her man was poisoned there ensues the tussle of a love triangle, which gets unraveled in a poignant end, but not before a series of  murders. So, then who could have poisoned Ranjit the realtor, Shakeel the Inspector, Pravar the criminal and Natya his accomplice?Well the needle of suspicion tilted towards Pravar that was till he perished with his mate, but then who was the one? Could it be Radha under the scanner for her role in the death of her husband Madhu and his mistress Mala, Pravar's sister?O...

Lured by the pitch - All marriages are made in heaven but some are delayed on earth: We endeavor to hasten them all - Priya goes to Renuka Marriage  Bureau. Scanning the prospects, when she spotted Venu, whom she slighted long ago, she rushes to him to bring about a dramatic encounter. What brought about Priya’s change of heart to seek her former suitor and how Venu responds to his old flame’s fresh overtures lend suspense to their romance in this eclectic novella.  

This is a collection of the author’s short stories that deals with women's dilemmas in the Indian social milieu accompanied with unique denouements. While 'Ilaa's Ire' contrasts woman's lot of the day with her eminence in the Vedic Age, '201' Qualms" depicts her predicament, torn between personal loyalty and citizen's responsibilities. As "?" addresses woman's marital stress in an alien land, 'Cupid's Clue' is about her acting on rebound in her native  place. Even as 'Autumn Love' lets woman discover the marital void in her life, 'A Touchy Affair' makes her amenable to her man's other woman.  Just as 'Love's How's That' inflames woman's old flame, 'A Hearty Turn' brings her innat...

This is a compendium of the author’s Indian stage and radio plays:Slighted Souls is a poignant love story set in rural Telangana, beset with feudal exploitation of the forcing the dalits to toil in the fields as bonded labor without impunity, the land owning doras had no qualms in reducing the womenfolk of this ilk as sex slaves in the gadis, which leads to an armed resistance engulfing an young couple. Men at work on Women at work is a tragic-comic episode depicting the fallout of sexual harassment at the workplace in the Indian urban setting with its traditional cultural underpinnings. Castle of Despair, built on the slippery ground of man's innate urge for ...

In a stream of consciousness mode, this is the self-account of the life and times of a man, who liquidates his immense wealth only to consign it to the  flames. The agony and ecstasy of his life as he makes it big in our materialistic world and the way he loses his soul in the bargain, only to regain it when tragedy strikes him makes one ponder over the meaning of success in  This philosophical ‘novel of a memoir’ is a compelling read that is conducive to contemplate the nature and scope of human relationships begins thus:"He had the soul of our times, and is the namesake of many. He tamed success by the scruff of its neck, only to fuel envy in our neighborhood. When it seemed ...

If passing through youth was like crossing the mirage of life for Chandra and Nithya, it proved to be chasing the mirage of love for Sathya and Prema though for plain Vasavi, Chandra's pitiable sibling, it was the end of the road. As life brings Chandra, who suffers from an inferiority complex for his perceived ugliness, and Nithya, who was bogged down being jilted by Vasu, together, they script their fate of fulfillment. And as poetic justice would have it, Sathya, who caused Prema's heartburn, himself was led down the garden path by Kala, doing a Sathya on Sathya. Just not that, life has in store just deserts for Vasu owing to Nithya's retribution as he tries to stalk her. Besides, after m...

The attractions Roopa experienced and the fantasies she entertained as a teen shaped a male imagery that ensconced her subconscious. Insensibly, confident carriage came to be associated with the image of maleness in her mind-set. Her acute consciousness of masculinity only increased her vulnerability to it, making her womanliness crave for the maleness for its gratification. However, as her father was constrained to help her in becoming a doctor, she opts to marry, hoping that Sathyam might serve her cause though the persona she envisioned as masculine, she found lacking in him. But as he fails to go with her idea, she becomes apathetic towards him, and insensibly sinks into her friend Sandh...

22 condemned prisoners, 6 soldiers and a Federal Marshall assigned to guard them, six engineers and firemen to run the engine non-stop, three private luxury cars full of high society swells traveling to see the hanging, and various servants, on a special high speed train the papers are already calling 'the Gallows take all this and mix in one Satan worshipping mass murderer who is about to summon a powerful demon to free him from his imminent public and  you've got NIGHT TRAIN, a tale of Western horror by renowned indie author  Madigan.  

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